Welcome to our latest instalment of our weekly pre-match updates where we analyse the weekend’s lineups, crunch the stats and see what the bookies are thinking to help you optimise your lineups for peak performance this weekend! By the time you finish this article you should have all the insight you need to score big fantasy points this weekend. Make sure you come back every weekend before finalising your lineups!
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Following the news coming out of Wasps this week, Wasps v Exeter has been called off this weekend.
Potential mismatches
Here are the projected lines courtesy of Paddy Power…
- Saracens to beat Bath by 20 points
- Northampton to beat Newcastle by 14 points
- Sale to beat London Irish by 10 points
- Gloucester to beat Bristol by 7 points
- Harlequins to beat Leicester by 3 points
Premiership Bye Situation
In order to help you plan your transfers, here’s a quick overview of the upcoming byes.
Due to the suspension of Worcester, there will now be two teams on a bye each week for the forseeable future.
We await news on the next steps surrounding the future matches due to be played by Wasps.
This week was supposed to be a Worcester bye week, so there are no planned bye weeks, but as mentioned above, neither Wasps or Exeter will play this week.
Upcoming bye weeks…
- Round 6: None (Would have been a Worcester bye week)
- Round 7: Newcastle and Bristol
- Round 8: Leicester and Bath
- Round 9: Harlequins and Leicester
- Round 10: Bristol and Sale
- Round 11: Bath and Northampton
- Round 12: Exeter and Saracens
- Round 13: Northampton and Wasps
- Round 14: Gloucester and London Irish
- Round 15: Sale and Exeter
- Round 16: Bristol and Leicester
- Round 17: Saracens and Sale
- Round 18: Harlequins and Wasps
- Round 19: London Irish and Northampton
- Round 20: Wasps and Harlequins
- Round 21: Newcastle and Saracens
- Round 22: Northampton and Gloucester
- Round 23: None (Would have been a Worcester bye week)
- Round 24: Bath and Newcastle
- Round 25: Leicester and Bristol
- Round 26: Exeter and Bath
Expected to go well on Fantasy Rugby Draft and Fantasy Rugby World
*Players who are starting favourably out of position (i.e. Hooker in back row, Centre on wing, etc.)
FRONT ROW
- Val Rapava Ruskin (Gloucester)
- Ellis Genge (Bristol)
- Wilco Louw (Harlequins)
- Bevan Rodd (Sale)
- Agustin Creevy (London Irish)
- George McGuigan (Newcastle)
- Tom Dunn (Bath)
LOCKS
- Matias Alemanno (Gloucester)
- Chris Vui (Bristol)*
- Jean-Luc Du Preez (Sale)
- Sean Robinson (Newcastle)*
- Jonny Hill (Sale)
BACK ROW
- Billy Vunipola (Saracens)
- Daniel Du Preez (Sale)
- Ruan Ackermann (Gloucester)
- Jack Kenningham (Harlequins)
- Fitz Harding (Bristol)
- Tom Curry (Sale)
- Theo McFarland (Saracens)
SCRUM-HALF
- Raffi Quirke (Sale)
- Danny Care (Harlequins)
- Alex Mitchell (Northampton)
FLY HALF
- James Grayson (Northampton)
- Rob Du Preez (Sale)
- Owen Farrell (Saracens)
CENTRES
- Nick Tompkins (Saracens)
- Luke Northmore (Harlequins)
- Joe Marchant (Harlequins)*
- Andre Esterhuizen (Harlequins)
- Fraser Dingwall (Northampton)
- Tom Roebuck (Sale)*
OUTSIDE BACKS
- Elliot Daly (Saracens)
- Cadan Murley (Harlequins)
- Louis Rees-Zammitt (Gloucester)
- Tom O’Flaherty (Sale)
- Ollie Hassell-Collins (London Irish)
- Adam Radwan (Newcastle)
- Max Malins (Saracens)
- Charles Piutau (Bristol)
Value Fantasy Rugby Draft Free Agent Pick-ups
Please note that not all of these players may be available as free agents in your leagues, but if they are, then move quickly!
- James Grayson – FH – Northampton
- Fitz Harding – LF – Bristol
- Matt Scott – M – Leicester
- Tom Penny – M – Newcastle*
- Jackson Wray – LF – Saracens
- Ruaridh McConnochie – OB – Bath
- Ben Meehan – HB – Gloucester
- Henry Purdy – OB – Bristol
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